Heh, heh, heh, did you pay attention… Let's see how much I get paid for commenting.... 

You know, there's a saying that goes like this ‘what doesn't cost us, let's make it a party’, and remember that ‘time goes by, we get older’. Where I was born, they called the TV ‘Pandora's box’.

I particularly think that we only value time when we need the ‘25th hour’ to finish our obligations, that's when we dedicate all our effort and exhaust ourselves with its dose of stress. Otherwise, when we get old, and we see the photo album we get sad, because we lost the years of life that will never return.

Friend, live the now, take advantage of every moment to feel the sun, to see that the moon follows you, to count the stars, to enjoy the sea, to keep painting the stones no matter the design. Share that game that Smallsteps loves, and don't forget the chocolate and the bouquet of flowers for your wife.

Multiple investments is good but I will like to ask a clear question to understand what you’re saying
Does it mean that we should diversify our investments but make sure that we invest in business that are alike and not just ones that are not connected in any way?

If my attention is a resource, not only do I have very little of it, but it is spread all across the country too! 

> This 8 seconds of pure attention used to be 12 seconds twenty years ago, which means that we are fifty percent worse than we were.

Wow what a crazy metric to be able to measure. I knew these dang Gen-Zers were distractable but by that much?! I wonder how much worse it is for the next generation that I am teaching now. This does not give me much hope.

> did you pay attention all the way through to the article, or did your thoughts wander?

Well funny you ask, because I typically copy and paste the quotes I respond to in the moment, before even finishing the article. So as I read through, if there is a quote or point that evokes a response from me, I pop it into the comments and write my reply immediately.

Sometimes this yields interesting results because I'll respond to a point you make before reading your conclusion where you may also address it. I also find that this allows me to better connect to my stream of thought in the moment, so I don't lose what I was thinking about as I progress through your writing. 

>This article is about 1000 words

What I find interesting is that while Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time it seems that I have more to say about Dragon age 2( a game that is rather mediocre in comparison).

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>However, spreading a little here and there in unconnected vehicles is unlikely to yield much.

I relate to this a lot. Hence, I am looking for ways not to spread myself too thin all over the multitude of stuff I wish to be able to do and master. Picking and choosing, what I dedicate more of my time and accepting the fact that I will likely not have time to cover all of it in my lifetime. 

>Is there a difference in your thoughts when reading an article like this, or scrolling five minutes of Instagram?

Of course, there is a difference. But reading in general has not been the easiest for me my whole life. It takes a lot of intense focusing to read and grasp. Sure, I can skim through stuff while my mind is all over my thoughts that never stop, but then I do not grasp what I read. It takes some time to gain some fluidity where what I read takes over my thoughts and makes them stop or go away further in the background. 

That said, I think that this struggling could be dealt with by just training my focus a little more.

The pool that's ever shrinking is time left and... the hard thing is deciding what to actually do with it that will be meaningful and make you feel fulfilled. Values have spread over quite the range and it's not simple anymore. Not following the will of the tribe, the king, the great leader, you have too many choices. Too many to make one.

Thus, attention wanders and never finds home.

I think time is our main currency and many of us is just wasting it without really thinking. You equal time with money and you can realize how much television or other silly stuff is really costing us. TO give one example. But then, time wasted doing something you like is not really wasted. Or is it?

Right when you said "idiot box" was when I trailed off into my own idiot box.  Because I could relate to that and it brought back memories.  Totally beyond my control.  Just happened.

The moment I lost focus was actually the moment I focused more, yet that was several prior moments processed in an instant.  So, there's plenty of concentrated time to be found in those moments of losing concentration. 

*That's interesting.* 

Everything else was flow, where the mind is hopping word to word.  While being fed the information, there's not much focus involved.  Just following the rhythm, doing what we're trained to do, when we read.  All we're doing is building a picture in our minds, one word at a time.  If you lose your place, it's still there.

And I doubt this entire episode would stand out at some point in the future, when this all happens again.  So was this truly worth my time?

I'll say yes.